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The Rising Photographer Inspired by Her Home Country – The New York Times

The Jamaica-born, London-based Amber Pinkerton makes stylish pictures that lead with her subjects’ humanity.

Dread and Longing at a Nineteen-Seventies Sleepaway Camp | The New Yorker

Andy Sweet’s 1977 photographs from Camp Mountain Lake, in North Carolina, beautifully capture the cheerful triumphs and the gutting alienation that one can experience at camp.

Post date August 8, 2020
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B: Matt Stuart: Into The Fire

Matt Stuart's book Into The Fire was recently published by Setanta Books. • BA: How did you discover Slab City? MS: I discovered Slab City...

Magnum Under Fire for Selling Photos of ‘Teenage’ Sex Workers from 1989

Magnum Photos and prominent photojournalist David Alan Harvey are under scrutiny online today after some of Harvey's photographs labeled as 'Teenage'

As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size – Columbia Journalism Review

The run-up to the 2020 November elections in the US has produced new networks of shadowy, politically backed “local news websites” designed to promote partisan talking points and collect user data. In December 2019, the Tow Center for Digital Journalis

Post date August 7, 2020
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 August 2020 – Photojournalism Now

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Bangladeshi photojournalist Mohammad Shahnewaz Khan, founder of Voice of Humanity and Hope (VOHH) Festival turns the camera on himself and …

Post date August 7, 2020
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The Chinese Photographer Who Lost His Beautiful Memories – Aperture Foundation NY

Since 2004, Muge has captured the yearning of millions of people displaced by the Three Gorges Dam.

Post date August 6, 2020
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Exposing Rodrigo Duterte’s War on the Free Press

Director Ramona Diaz and journalist Maria Ressa discuss their struggles to make A Thousand Cuts, a film about the autocratic president of the Philippines.

Post date August 6, 2020
Post categories In Access & Censorship, Film & TV

this archive has no legs – Photographs by Srinivas Kuruganti | Essay by Joshua Muyiwa | LensCulture

Inviting strangers to go through his photographs, Srinivas Kuruganti’s five day experiment turned the personal public, exploring the fluidity of narrative and the boundaries of the archive

The Photographers Who Captured the Toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The New York Times

A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombings that ended World War II — and challenges a common American perception of the destruction in Japan.

Libyan National Army ‘sentences’ freelance photojournalist Ismail Abuzreiba al-Zway to 15 years – Committee to Protect Journalists

Washington, D.C., August 4, 2020–The Libyan National Army should immediately release photojournalist Ismail Abuzreiba al-Zway, and stop prosecuting journalists in secret trials and in military courts, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. In a

Juxtapoz Magazine – NYC Skateboarding in the 1960s by Bill Eppridge

A nice touch of nostalgia this morning, as we came across Bill Eppridge's skateboarding photos he took in New York City during the 1960s. Some of the...

Post date August 5, 2020
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This is How Adobe’s Upcoming Photo ‘Authenticity’ System Will Work

Almost 9 months after announcing the so-called Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) for preventing image theft and manipulation online, Adobe has finally

Post date August 4, 2020
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The Winners of the Malofiej International Infographics Awards for 2020

In this edition, 162 media outlets from 34 different countries have sent in their works. Of the 1,000 entries in the competition, 400 correspond to

Post date August 4, 2020
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Missing Photojournalist Austin Tice, Tops July Ranking Of One Free Press Coalition’s “10 Most Urgent” Press Freedom Cases Press Freedom Cases

The One Free Press Coalition Publishes its “10 Most Urgent” List.

Photographers on Photographers: Macaulay Lerman in conversation with Paul Guilmoth | LENSCRATCH

At first glance the photograph is a medium of great limitation. The primary function of the camera is to describe the surface of an enclosed scene. Yet, for perhaps ineffable reasons, certain imagery surpasses it’s technical purpose, instead conjuring sen

Juxtapoz Magazine – Talent Show: Julie Blackmon’s Theatrical Photographs

There is a dreamlike quality to Julie Blackmon’s imagery. Children live, play, grow bored, make up stories, act them out and play some more, as if una...

Post date August 3, 2020
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‘When the heart gets filtered up through the camera’: Vietnam War photographers on how to cover COVID better – Columbia Journalism Review

On February 29, Washington State health officials announced what they believed to be the first death due to the novel coronavirus in the United States. By March 31, the official national death toll stood at 3,173. It was a larger number, news outlets n

Post date August 3, 2020
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Tags Art Greenspon, David Burnett, David Hume Kennerly, Robert Hodierne

Q&A: Rosem Morton, photographer and nurse on the front lines of the pandemic – Columbia Journalism Review

Rosem Morton, a nurse for eight years, works full-time at a Baltimore hospital. When she isn’t assisting airway surgeries and distributing personal protective equipment to coworkers, she works as a freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer

Arnaud Montagard: The Road, The Diner and the Drink on the Table – AMERICAN SUBURB X

"In the case of Arnaud Montagard’s The Road Not Taken, the lens is focused on the remnants of a mid-century American dream as exemplified by gas stations and diners that bear all the vernacular hallmarks of the Atomic Age" The best way to descr

Post date July 30, 2020
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